On 2/16/10, Tomasz Golinski wrote: >> No offense intended, but that's really not a typical-use case. >> >> UFraw is not an image editor, it's a RAW image developer/processor. >> Most (all?) commercial RAW processors on the market include some form >> of overall sharpening. The size of the image is irrelevant.
(to the guy Tomasz quotes) Most popular workflow tools like Lr, Aperture and even Bibble however are image editors in a sense that they have selections and non-destructive brushes for localized touch-ups. The market has already changed: being just a RAW processor is not considered right anymore :) > "bigger" than details so no thresholding algorithm would help... Maybe > more careful noise reduction would be a solution. On the other hand - USM > gives worse results imho than plain sharpen. Either way, it is my problem, > not ufraw's ;) There are all sorts of techniques to simplify life of a photographer who shoots in iso1600, from well known ones like sharpening in luminance/lightness channel of YCbCr or LAB to less well known like using advanced edge avoiding wavelets (last year SIGGRAPH's paper). Alexandre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ ufraw-devel mailing list ufraw-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ufraw-devel
